more than half a week’s sickness yearly to each individual employed.
This is a very low average. The sickness found to prevail in ordinary
times amongst the labouring population of two parishes in Westminster
was at the rate of between 5 and 6 days to each individual. The
sickness of the Metropolitan Police is 10½ per annum to each
individual. The proportionate mortality of 13 annually out of 550 is 1
to 42, which it will also be perceived, on reference to the standards
previously given, is a low proportion of mortality for a manufacturing
population.
Footnote 63:
Dr. Currie’s Medical Reports, chap. xxii. Liverpool, 1797.
Footnote 64:
Formerly the mortality on board convict ships amounted to 50 and even
60 per cent. during the voyage; under the more recent arrangements
they have amounted only to about 1½ per cent.—E. C.
Footnote 65:
Ten has been the average deaths, taking the last three years.
Footnote 66:
I am of opinion that this Table does not afford sufficient data to
warrant general conclusions being deduced from it after the age of 36,
as the number of prisoners above that age is too small. In proof of
this it may be stated that one person experienced 18 days’ sickness
out of the 30 days in the class from 41 to 46, and that another had 18
days’ sickness out of the 36 in the class from 56 to 61, while in the
class 76 to 81, one person experienced 3 days, being the whole
sickness. J. SMITH.
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